Rwanda is about 39 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 2.56% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (9.0 million more people live in Rwanda).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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